Index of Courses

EH4XX = course code pending

0.5 = half-unit course

1.0 = full-unit course

Course videos can be found here.

The 2024/25 Calendar Course Guides are available below. The Calendar Course Guides for 2025/26 will be available in August 2025.

Course availability listed below is provisional and subject to change until publication of the 2025/26 LSE Calendar.

Compulsory Courses (programme dependent)

• EH4XX Historical Analysis of Economic Change (1.0)
  *Formerly EH401
• EH437 History of Global Finance (1.0)

Quantitative Methods Courses 

These are Core Courses for students on MSc Economic History, MSc Economic History (Research), and MSc Financial History i.e. you must choose one course from the below. These are Optional Courses for students on MSc Political Economy of Late Development and MSc Global Economic History (LSE X Leipzig Double Degree).

• EH402 Quantitative Analysis in Economic History I (0.5)
• EH426A Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5)
• EH427 Topics in Quantitative Analysis in Economic History (0.5)

Core Courses (MSc Financial History)

Students on MSc Financial History must choose one 0.5 unit course from the EH list and one 0.5 unit course from the FM list below to the value of 1.0 unit. 

• EH438 History of Financial Markets (0.5)
• EH439 History of Banking Systems (0.5)
• EH441 Macroeconomic History (0.5)
• EH449 History of Corporate Finance and Institutional Investment (0.5)
• FM447 Global Financial Systems (0.5)
• FM472 International Finance (0.5)
• FM473A Financial Markets [or FM473W] (0.5)
• FM474 Managerial Finance [or FM474W] (0.5)

Dissertations

• EH496 Research Dissertation A: Contextualisation, Theory and Research Design 
  MSc Economic History (Research) - 15,000 words - co-taught with EH497 (1.0)
• EH497 Research Dissertation B: Implementation, Analysis and Contribution 
  MSc Economic History (Research) - 15,000 words - co-taught with EH496 (1.0)
• EH498 Dissertation (6,000 words) (0.5)
• EH499 Research Dissertation (10,000 words) (1.0)

Optional Courses available in 2025/26 (programme dependent)

• EH402 Quantitative Analysis in Economic History I (0.5)
• EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)
• EH421 Economic History of Colonialism (0.5)
• EH426A Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5)
• EH427 Topics in Quantitative Analysis in Economic History (0.5)
• EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5)
• EH431 Women in Economic History (0.5)
• EH441 Macroeconomic History (0.5)
• EH442 Labour Markets in Historical Perspective (0.5)
• EH4XX Money and Finance in History (0.5)
  *Formerly EH430 (1.0)
• EH4XX Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (0.5)
  *Formerly EH446 (1.0)
• EH4XX A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5)
  *Formerly EH482 (1.0)
• EH4XX The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (0.5)
  *Formerly EH483 (1.0)
• EH4XX Topics in the Economic History of War in Europe (0.5)
  *New for 2025/26

Listed option courses from other departments if your programme of study allows

• EC465‡ Economic Growth, Development, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective (1.0)

‡ Any student following MSc Economic History or MSc Economic History (Research) wishing to take this course must successfuly complete EC400 over Summer 2025.

Optional courses not available in 2024/25

• EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)
• EH409 Chinese Economic History: Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth (0.5)
• EH426W Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5) 
• EH432 Historical Economic Geography: Advanced Topics and Methods (0.5) 
• EH436 Economic History of the Early Modern New World (The Americas) (0.5)
• EH443 The History of Premodern Money (0.5)
• EH444 Population Dynamics and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective (0.5)
• EH448 Craft, Human Capital and Innovation in Europe: 1400-1800 (0.5)
• EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)
• EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (0.5)

Please note: not all courses are available on all programmes. Please check your programme regulations before requesting a place.